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CHARLOTTE – Mecklenburg County’s housing market is better off than it was two years ago, according to RealtyTrac’s 2014 Election Housing Scorecard. The report scored 1,547 U.S. county housing markets based on five factors: housing affordability, unemployment rates, foreclosure starts ...

The U.S. Attorney’s office on Tuesday withdrew its claim against the home of the president of Boggs Paving Inc. after attorneys for Carl Andrew “Drew” Boggs III objected. His attorneys asserted that the $2.2 million Waxhaw home was not paid ...

CHARLOTTE – Former Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon was sentenced to 44 months in prison Tuesday, despite a recommendation for a more lenient sentence by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Chief U.S. District Judge Frank Whitney, when he levied the sentence, cited ...

CHARLOTTE — A North Carolina judge said Monday that the city — not a commission created by GOP lawmakers — will run one of the nation’s busiest airports while both sides wait for a federal agency’s ruling on the issue. ...

Tension between York County residents and Canadian developer Mattamy Homes has increased since the County Council proposed an amendment to the county’s Lake Wylie Overlay ordinance in early September. Residents brought up the possibility of a graveyard blocking construction. The ...

Lake Wylie residents raised concerns Monday that a slave burial ground may be present on the land that Mattamy Homes wants to develop for single-family homes. Matt Burton, whose family has lived along Lake Wylie for several generations, said at ...

CHARLOTTE – Preliminary September pending home sales in the Charlotte region increased to 3,272 contracts, up 28.4 percent from 2,549 in September 2013, according to data released Tuesday by the Charlotte Regional Realtor Association. “With home sales slowing across the ...

CHARLOTTE – Attorneys for Carl Andrew “Drew” Boggs III have objected to the U.S. Attorney’s Office seeking the forfeiture of his $2.2 million Waxhaw home. In an Oct. 7 response to a government filing stating that it is seeking at ...

Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Charlotte recently hosted its 6th Annual Queen City in Pink campaign, which encouraged local businesses to turn their buildings and surroundings pink from Sept. 27 to Oct. 5 in support of the community’s survivors of ...

Home prices in the Charlotte region, including distressed sales, increased 5.4 percent in August from a year ago, according to data from CoreLogic. On a month-over-month basis, home prices in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia metropolitan statistical area decreased 0.3 percent in August ...